A-Data 500 Series AS592S-32GM-C 32GB SSD in RAID 0 Mini-Review
The A-data S592 SSDs use an Indilinx controller and have supported TRIM since a firmware update last December.
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Originally Posted by Hardware Canucks
The I/O chip is of course none other than the Indilinx “Barefoot” IDX110 controller. As expected, this SSD comes with the Indilinx IDX110M00-LC unit as the older –FC models are long gone now. The Indilinx IDX110 is an ARM based controller with native SATA 3.0Gb/s, supports capacities of up to 512GB, is rated for speeds of 230MB/Sec read and 190MB/s writes.
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These great SSDs are at Newegg right now for $95 $87.99 shipped, so I bought two! I am pleased with their performance in RAID 0 and am sharing the fruits of my (brief) benchmarking, hopefully aiding someone with their purchasing decisions. Everything was done with my sig rig in 64-bit Windows 7 Professional with the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver installed.
I previously had three Seagate 7200.7 80GB drives in RAID 0 as my OS host. Here are their benchmark results for comparison purposes (keep in mind that these hard drives are terrible, though):
Sorry that the picture is under-sized. Here's the HD Tune info if you can't make it out:
Minimum: 58.9 MB/s
Maximum: 160.7 MB/s
Average: 123.4 MB/s
Access Time: 13.0 ms
Burst rate: 3033.0 MB/s
Like I said previously, they are REALLY bad.
Now here's the results after dropping in the two A-Data S592s in RAID 0:
HD Tune results
Minimum: 345.7 MB/s (+487%)
Maximum: 464.4 MB/s (+189%)
Average: 442.7 MB/s (+259%)
Access time: 0.1 ms (-99.23%)
Burst rate: 3381.6 MB/s (+11.5%)
Obviously, there was a very large performance gain! I personally believe they were worth the price tag, but your opinion may vary.
That's the end of my super-small review! Cheers
Edited by The_0ctogon - 7/14/10 at 9:20am
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With just the OS and apps (office, photoshop, flash, firefox, etc.) installed, I still had 36GB of the 59.6GB formatted size of the array left. Moving the pagefile to a separate drive really helps space-wise.
